The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-01-30
Religious Notes.

Religious Notes.
Philadelphia has 637 churches, and one-third
of her population church members.
Who find not Providence all good and wise.
Alike in what 1t gives and what denies.
A gift of ElO, 900 to build church for Eng
shmen in Paris has been made by Sir Richard
Wallace.
DR.. Cuyer's church in Brooklyn has meme
bership of g 145, and gave last year $25, 200 for
benevolences.
The late Bishop Harrington of Africa II to
have memorial in Exeter Cathedral, where he
was ordained
We need not die TO go to God
See how the daily prayer is given!.
IT'S not across gulf cry,
Our Father. who dost dwell in heaven"
Mrs. Whitney.
The Swedenborgians believe in the press In
the last few years they have given to clergymen
81 $50 volumes of two of their publications, and
have sold and distributed 80, 793 pocket editions
and $50 600 tracts
A handsome metal cross, iniaid with diamonds
the Dean Of Canterbury by an unknown DONOR
has been, in compliance with the conditions Of
the gift, placed upon the retable
Missionary Review: There is not one female
missionary to quarter of million women for
those countries In which they alone carry
the gospel to the secluded victims chiefly by the
tedious process of visits to the homes.
A verbose prayer from a cold heart will deaden
a religious meeting, though the tones of him who
utters it may be sweet and his dction perfect
The words of an honest man, forgetting himself
in longing for Cod will melt hard hearts though
the voice may be husky and the grammar bad
Rest weary sou
The penalty is borne, the ransom paid
For all thy sins full satisfaction made;
Strive not to do thyself what Christ has done.
Claim the free gift, and make the JOY thine own;
No more By pangs of guilt and fear distrest,
Rest sweetly rest"
The railroad branch of the Young Mems
Christian Association. which in 1875 had but
four rooms in the United States, has now q
footing at sixty-six railroad points. Fifty eight
have reading rooms and fifty -four employ gem
eral secretary, forty-slx have libraries and
twenty -one provide instruction in the common
branches of education
The British Baptist Handbook for 1857 shows
total of g. 742 Baptist churches with 1902, 6l5
members, in Great Britain, Ireland and Channel
islands, as against 2, 573 churches with 290.9l8
members, in the former year. The totals in the
British empire were 1888 churches, with Ago. l25
members, as against !, 62S churches and Alb, lao
| member In the former year.
| The Nation makes the suggestion to the follow
ers of Henry George and DR.. McGlynn that
/ they start church of their own. eve do NOT
believe" it says that any of the existing resigi
ious denominations 49,. Tn. ..s..i.it. 1900.
dations for the doctrine that the land of the
country may be lawfully taken from its present
4 owners without compensation"
There are 5000, 600 Indians of Mexico making
| 30 Der cent. OF the entire population. They
| speak thirty-fve idioms and sixty nine dialectz
They are nearly all grossly ignorant, and live by
themselves, wild, half savage life, in the coun-
| try districts. Gov Jose Marie Ramirez, of Chi.
apas, will soon ask the President to appropriate
| $l.OOO: 900 to educate these Indians.
A missionary in Japan writes that he was
| lately invited by Buddhist priest to preach In
his temple-somethng unheard of before. The
| missionary adds that a marvellous change is
| taking place in the minds of tbs people in these
far Eastern lands aud Buddhism he says, ssis
| breaking down much faster than Christianity is
| able to take possession of the wrecks"
The Rev. Hugh Price Hughes, OF London
| commenting on the leaning toward liturgical
service in America, says that ito refuse liturgy,
where IL Is desired. is as tyrannicai and mis-
| chievous to force it upon those who dislike
it. Methodism,' he adds, cannot be great
Church unless we are prepared to tolerate q
great variety in the arrangements for public
service"
The following, from the message of Governor
Martin OF Kansas, to the Legislature Of that
State. ought to satisfy persons who are still ask
ing whether prohibition Is a success in Kansas.
1.-The public sentiment Of Kansas is overwhelm-
| ingly against the LIQUOR traffic. Thousands OF
men who few years ago opposed prohibition,
/, | or doubted whether it was the best method OF
dealing with the liquor traffic have seen and frank
| ly acknowledged its benefeient results, and
practical success The temptations with whic.
the open saloon allured the youth OF the land to
disgrace. and destruction; the appetite Tor liquor
bred and nurtured within its walls by the treat
| ing custom; the vice. crime, poverty, suffering
and sorrow of which it Is always the fruitful
source-all these evil results of the open saloon
have been abolished in nearly every town aud
city of Kansas. There il not observing man
in the State who does not know that great 70.
J form has been accomplished in ksaaas BY pre-
hibition.S